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mm: untag user pointers passed to memory syscalls
authorAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 23:48:30 +0000 (16:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:51:41 +0000 (17:51 -0700)
commitcf6dec4a2957b527058d0d0a8e3733661153de3e
tree53fc307c262ac97bf27c7c529806bb31321de04c
parent64d0c7f80760a4f23207eb091e44b7a88c91b6cf
mm: untag user pointers passed to memory syscalls

This patch is a part of a series that extends kernel ABI to allow to pass
tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other than
0x00) as syscall arguments.

This patch allows tagged pointers to be passed to the following memory
syscalls: get_mempolicy, madvise, mbind, mincore, mlock, mlock2, mprotect,
mremap, msync, munlock, move_pages.

The mmap and mremap syscalls do not currently accept tagged addresses.
Architectures may interpret the tag as a background colour for the
corresponding vma.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/aaf0c0969d46b2feb9017f3e1b3ef3970b633d91.1563904656.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Cc: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/madvise.c
mm/mempolicy.c
mm/migrate.c
mm/mincore.c
mm/mlock.c
mm/mprotect.c
mm/mremap.c
mm/msync.c